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Vitamin D and Acute Respiratory Infections

With national COVID-19 surges and the onset of flu season, it’s more important than ever to learn how to protect yourself. As your only host defense, your immune system is incredibly important. Its cells, antibodies and protein signals (cytokines) are our best shot at preventing viral infections and limiting complications if we are infected. It turns out that vitamin D is one of the chemicals our immune system needs to strengthen itself. This is an especially important topic for Black Americans because brown skin has a harder time converting the sun into vitamin D.

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Strengthening Your Immune System- Not Scientifically Possible?

With national COVID-19 surges and the onset of flu season, there are a bunch of complicated terms floating around online like active immunity and passive immunity (also known as innate and adaptive immunity). Then there are all the immune-booster claims that are simply not scientifically possible.

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